Shakespeare in Performance, from Georgetown University

Shakespeare in Performance, from Georgetown University Shakespeare in Performance is a summer program from Georgetown University in London and Stratford-upon-Avon: plays, actors, lectures, and tours.

Shakespeare in Performance is a summer program from Georgetown University that may be taken for either undergraduate or graduate credit. This program is open to students from any university, as well as those who may not currently be working toward a degree. Students spend one week in London, where the focus of the program is on the Globe Theatre in London, and a second week in Stratford-upon-Avon,

the birthplace of Shakespeare and the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company. In both places, students go to lectures given by Georgetown faculty and other Shakespearian scholars, attend plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, visit Shakespearian locales, speak with Shakespearian actors, and much more.

Shakespeare Theatre will be playing The Merchant of Venice this spring. What could be more appropriate to this difficul...
01/23/2022

Shakespeare Theatre will be playing The Merchant of Venice this spring. What could be more appropriate to this difficult political moment?

Shakespeare’s remarkable exploration of justice returns to the nation’s capital, stoking the debate on what is right, what is fair, and what is lawful—and who

Winter won't last forever!
01/20/2022

Winter won't last forever!

In partnership with the National Building Museum and the University of South Carolina, Folger Theatre brings Shakespeare's magical romp to life as part of Shakespeare's Playhouse, the 2022 NBM Summer Block Party.

11/10/2021

Shakespeare Globe on the south bank of the Thames.

10/27/2021

Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 177Close reading of Shakespeare is not a new concept. But this kind of close reading is more challenging—and it can help us interpret Shakespeare’s words in new and profound ways. Our guests are two contributors to the new Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Rac...

10/25/2021

Austin Tichenor looks at the legacy of Shakespeare’s St. Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V in American popular culture.

10/21/2021

Oh no... She. Loves. Me.Viola as Cesario (played by Michelle Terry), ponders the meaning of Olivia's ring – could it possibly mean that the countess has fall...

Shakespeare Hour Live offers some interesting conversations. Note that the first one this season on Wednesday 13 Octobe...
10/03/2021

Shakespeare Hour Live offers some interesting conversations.

Note that the first one this season on Wednesday 13 October is with Derek Goldman, Chair of the Department of Performing Arts at Georgetown; Ijeoma Njaka, Senior Associate of Equity-Centered Design at Georgetown; and Clark Young, who wrote Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski with Derek Goldman.

Join STC and like-minded fans of the Bard for Shakespeare Hour Live, an ongoing tour through every corner of the Shakespeare universe. Artistic Director Simon

08/16/2021

Jocelyn Bioh reshapes a comedy of clever women, frail men and harsh revenge into one of love and forgiveness, just when New York needs it.

08/16/2021

What's behind the unusual number of Shakespeare's romances onstage this summer? We talked to the artists behind them to find out.

08/06/2021

When he was nudging 80, I saw Sir Ian McKellen take what I had not unreasonably believed to be his final bow on the stage in a production of King Lear.

Shakespeare everywhere...
07/31/2021

Shakespeare everywhere...

Austin Tichenor looks at the legacy of Shakespeare’s St. Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V in American popular culture.

07/22/2021

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